In the vote on February 4, with a registry of 6.2 million voters, the congress will also be renewed.
Nayib BukelePresident of The Saviorwould be re-elected and would sweep the elections on February 4, according to a survey by the Francisco Gavidia University (UFG).
Bukele, with his party New Ideas (NI)obtained 70.9% of the voting intention, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of 2.8% and was carried out from January 3 to 8 with 1,904 people.
Below appears Manuel Florescandidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN on the left), with 2.9%, and then the candidate of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), on the right, Joel Sanchezwith 2.7%.
In addition, the candidate of Nuestro Tiempo (NT, center) Luis Paradaobtained 1.1%, and two other candidates combined 1.2%. 21.2% abstained from giving an opinion or canceled their vote.
Nayib Bukele’s government in El Salvador
The FMLN and ARENA dominated the country’s politics after the Salvadoran civil war (1980-1992), until Bukele, in 2019, broke that two-party system by winning the presidency.
In the vote on February 4, with a register of 6.2 million votersthe Congress will also be renewed, which will have 60 deputies instead of the current 84 that the ruling party and its allies dominate, by virtue of a reform to the electoral law.
The projection, according to the survey, is that Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party would obtain 57 deputies, 2 Arena, and 1 the Christian Democratic Party.
Another survey conducted last December by the Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) found that seven out of 10 Salvadorans “agree” with Bukele being a candidate for re-election.
The massive popular support for Bukele is due to the fact that his “war” against criminal gangs brought peace of mind to the populationbut at the cost of civil rights limited by an emergency regime that has been in force since March 2022, according to human rights groups.
A controversial ruling by the constitutional court authorized Bukele to run for a second consecutive term, although the Salvadoran constitution did not allow re-election.
Source: Ambito
